On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:25:44 -0800,
gb6724@yahoo.com wrote:
www.geocities.com/gmbajszar/new_hydrogen_car.htm
Since you clearly labeled your writing as speculative, I'm assuming you
are posting in good faith, to the right-sounding news group.
Your ideas are not new, in the sense of trying to get energy from water.
When you read, "there is as much energy in the hydrogen obtained from a
gallon of water as there is in half a gallon of gasoline", it may be true,
but highly misleading. What is omitted is that extracting that much
hydrogen from water _always_ takes _more_ energy than is contained in a
half gallon of gasoline. There's no energy in the water, it had to come
from an external source. No ifs, ands, or buts, it had to come from
somewhere else. So trying to use hydrogen for an energy amplifier just
won't work. It winds up costing even more energy.
The other issue that often confuses folks unfamiliar with basic science is
the concept that adding a few steps to a process will somehow make things
work better. The opposite is almost always true. Simple is better.
There's a basic rule in physics - any time you change the form of energy,
you lose some of it as heat.
So when you take mechanical energy from an engine to turn a generator to
make electricity to charge a battery which electrolyses water to make
hydrogen to run your original engine, you've lost big time. For
openers, there's no energy source.
You are way ahead of the game simply burning gasoline in the engine to
start with. Trying to "improve" the efficiency by complicating the
process has the opposite effect. One of the regulars on the NG has
correctly called the scheme a "dynamic brake".
If you are actually interested in contributing to the field, you'll need
to learn a lot more basic science, starting with thoroughly understanding
the concept of energy, then the laws of thermodynamics. They're not hard:
1. "You can't win". (Energy cannot be created or destroyed.)
2. "You can't break even". (Entropy always increases.)
3. "It's the only game in town". (Applies to all closed systems.)
There are a lot of resources available that might be better suited to
educating yourself than this NG. There are so many scammers and looneys
around that regulars tend to get a mite testy at times. But honest
questions will usually be answered honestly.
Regards,
Bill Ward
